Remove the Stone

The story is told of a king who placed a heavy stone on the road and them hid and watched to see who would remove it.

Men of various classes came and worked their way round it. some loudly blaming the king for not keeping the highways clear, but all dodging their duty of getting out of the way.

At last a poor peasant, on his way to town with a sack of vegetables on his head for sale, saw the stone. He put his bundle of vegetable down and rolled the stone into the gutter. Then, turning round, he spied a purse that had lain right full of gold pieces with a note from the king, saying it was for the one who would remove the stone.